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Originally Posted by Michael Zeleny
To repeat myself, the exposed logo ОГЪНЪ indicates the safety lever position for FIRE in the Bulgarian spelling; the Russian spelling would be ОГОНЬ. There is no way for a native speaker of Russian or Bulgarian to get confused about this matter. The following Wikipedia pages explain the roles of the hard and soft signs in Cyrillic alphabets:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_sign |
Michael, not sure how that applies here? (And I don't think you can 'repeat' yourself, when it is a totally different forum...
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It is unlikely that they had native speakers at DWM?
And the newer Mauser made, did they consult or did they simply copy the previous mistakes, as Herb said?
Ed